The New York Herald Newspaper, December 23, 1853, Page 8

“VERY IWFERESTING FLU HUNDUBA?. @he War Between Guatemala and F’ondu- ras—intrigues of Mexico—The New moute to the Pacific, die., deo ‘The bark Cadet, ‘Capt. Guide, arrived yesterdsy from Belize, Honduras. She sailed thence on the 27th ult, Bho brings us late and highly interesting intelligence from Central America, especially from Hondaras. Our correvypondent gives us the latest and most anthen- Bie account of affairs in Honduras,fand of the progress of ‘the war of that State with Gus‘emala. OUR HONDURAS CORRESPONDENCE. Omoa, Honduras, Nov, 25, 1853. Fhe Copture and Boacuation of Omoa—The Conduct of Gen. Oarrera—Spirtied Remonstrance of the American Consul— Brtrigues of Mexico—Inter-cocanic Raitroad—The New Route to the Paci fic~-The Mahogany Business, fc., dc, You have, no doubt, already been advised of the csp. ture of this port by the forces of Guatemala, in the latter part of August, a5 also of its evacuation afew days sub peqnently. The fort here, built by the Spaniards during the good old times of the buccamerrs, is a formidable wort, and although at the time of the surprise of the gown it was eccupied by a small guard of only about thirty men, yet it would undoubtedly have held out suc @easfully bad not the infiueuce of the merchants of the place (‘earful of a sack) been exercised to procure itesur™ render. This surreader was made on the express condi oa that the armament and all warlike munitions should be respected—and to that ond they were to be put under the charge of Mr. Follin, U. 8. Consul. Neverthe- ees, with characteristic bad faith, Carrera carried off five magnificent brass i23, two brass mortars, and two tron 2is. He would probably have entirely stripped the fort hac it not been for the energetic remonstrances of ‘Mr. Folia. [learn that the fects of the cade have been properly represented at ‘ head quarters,” and that this violation of ths terms of surrencer may be attended with severer consequences to Guatemala than she suspects. ‘Ths war in the interior is, at this moment, in slatu quo» the States of Nicaragua and San Salvador having offered their mediation between the belligerente, The commission ers of the several governments were to have mot at Sauta Anna in San Salvador, on the 15th, but it is doubtful if fey will meet at all; or, even if they do meet, if any Satisfactory result will be reached—in fact, if the govern- ment paper of Guatemala osm be rel'ed upon, nothiog will be done by that State except om coadition of a radi- eal change in the personelle of the Honduras government; that is to say, unless the liberal or union party is effec- ually excluded from power ; forit is notorious that the whole object of the present war {s to extinguish for ever the liberal party, and reinstate in every part of the eountry, the old servile or aristocratic faction—that which sided with Iturbide when he attempted to found an empire in Mexico, and which is now in close com muczion with Santa Anos. Every puwber of the Guate- mala paper teems with articlos against the United States nc “jos Anglo-Americanas,”’ snd in favor of the “Spanish protectorate.” Mexico, indeed, has sent ecrminissioners to Carrera, to engsge him ia that gurlime scheme. The Honduras pspers, however, ricicule the whole project, sud suggest, sneor: ing!y, that it Jacks one essential provision—“ Who is to protect Spain?” They add that probsbly the king of Morquite may be called upon to protect the protector | The Honduras forces. pending tue negotiations, have Deen withdrawn from the frontier, and are sow quarter- ing in Las Piedras, or Villa de la Paz, on the plain of Comayacuas, near the capital, where Gen. Cabanas now is. This movement evinces, upon the part of Honduras, @ laucable determination to await imgood faith the action es It is, nevertheless, reporved have taken advantage of this etreumstance to make several savage incursions upon the fhontier towns. Mr. Squier, of your city, having completei his exami mations of the proposed line of railway throuzh this State, frem the Atlantic to tte Pacific, left here a few days ago, via Belize, for the United States. It appears from the official announcer that he has coscluded a contract with the government on a most liberal basis. The terms, however, have not ze been made public. It appears ‘that less than a hundred miles of road, threngh s coun- try abounding in ell the necessary materials for con- struction, and withal eminently salubrious and richin winerals and agricultural products, will be sufficient to ‘nite the two seas. The great advantage of this route over all others, is the circumstance that it has unrivalled at both’ extremities. The Bay of Fonseca, its western terminus, {s, without question, the most magni- ficent harbor on the entire Pacitic coast of the continent. But I presume you are already, or soon will be, better upon this matter than I am. In respect of trade, the mahogany business has epened ‘with unusual vigor, and there will be a large product this geason. This activity has been occasioned by the en- hanced price of this article in the English market. Eog- Mah versels are scarce sud ic great demand, shippers be- fing obliged to gint the United States markets in default of English ships. The indigo ef in the (uterior has Deer an almost total feilure, and local dealers having contracts to fill will hare to go down, since purchasing Prices rule higher than those of contract delivery. The @ochineal srop will be ‘air, ualesathe rains of the past month have extenced inward, in which case it will be short. AB ‘The only information that we can gather of the new foute to the Pacific, in addition to that mentioned in the Bbove letter, is the following from one of the Honduras pepers j= ENTER-OORANIC COMMUNICATION. anslated from the Gaceta Offisiel de Honduras ] e government throvgh means of its commissioners, has definitely concluded « contract with Mr. EG. Sqaler, ntingan Ameriesn company, for the construction of @ railroad between the Atisatic aad Pacific oceans, Whrough the territories of this state, This enterprise promis+s incalculable advantages for Hondaras. The vast Fiches of this State, (the larg-st as itis the most abun- @act in natural resources, 0’ all the divisions of Central America.) bave bitberto been aimost wholly unknown, fm consequence of thr difficulties of communication With the rest of the world. Usder the narrow colo- fais] system of Spsic, Honduras was ouly distinguish- ed for its precious wetals, and is now only known for its mahogany, which, growing on the coast, has fourd for itself a means of transportation te foreiga eountries; and it ss probable that even to the most in- teilizent foreigners, beth in Europe and the United Siates, Henlucaaiosaedp known cacnyt aa region protaseg eertain valuable woods--a vast swamp, in short, in whose ark shades the mahogany grows ani the sarsaparilla and vanilla vines twine their tendrils They little ima- gine that beyond the coast where these products abound, are broad vaileyr, high plains, aud mountain slopes, whero fourigh almos! side by side the fruits and steples of every gone—the apple and the orange, the wheat plaat and the sugar cane, the peach aud the plantain, tobacco and the potate, indigo, cochineal—in all the most valuable uetions of the earth. Yet such isthe fact. There no gradation of temperature or variety of soil or pro @uction which we do not possess. And, added to this, we have cur rich munes of gold, silver, lead, coal, and iron, all caly waiting for the advent of population, of capital, a. and industry. If they have not hitherto been developed, it has been because of our isolation, and the difficulties amounting to impossibilities, of our’ means of @ommunication. If our mines have been without ma- ebinery and our plantations without mules, it has been from this cause. We hail taen, the prospect of a new order of things, the opening of new relations, end the developement of resources hitherto latent. his prospect, fortavately, it mot illusive, Adequate examinations have demoustraied not cnly that the propored enterp-ise is feasible, but eminently and pre-eminently superior in nataral adv sn- fares to any similar prcject which has yet engaged pab- Me attention. And we are happy to be able to add that Bo time will be lost in putting it im execution. We ea tertain the highest confidence in the integrity and ability of the parties which have taken the matter in hand, and know that their eiforts will be cordially sad effectually seconded alike by the government and by the people of Bondnras. We are able to add that the government bas named o gentleman of the highest distinction, whose ua ne is in- seperably inter woven with the history of Central Amer- fea, ae ‘18 reprecentative in Washing on, who is instr uct- movgst other things, to negotiate sush a treaty with ited States as secure for ever the evjoymeat » advantages of proposed work (o the United States and Honduras, and to the world at large, We have receivad a copy of the constitution or basis of organization of the new British colony of Belize, This 1s an important dccamest just now,eand which, with t infor sition in our posseesion, may enable us to be of forme assistance in the debate that will shortly open in the Serate on Contral American affairs, The British brig of-war Daring, Commander Napier, sailed from Belize on the 18th vlt., on # eruise, but would veturo ina few days to await despatches of the Consal Geners!, Mr. Wyke, at Guatemala. The Honduras Advertiser gives the following specimen @f native poetry:— SORTHERN RIVER. We rail long de rea board To de Noten ribber— Daddie, him da teerman Kine, trong, an clibber. Jean sit pon de tas! Looken at de weddor— Mammie him s0 fall ob work Bout he lil bredder. Daddie tell dem all to mine An no begin fee bawl— De bush an Ky begin to meet: {tink we hab a quall. ‘We gone roun de Barrack pint, ‘An sight de Hioks’s Key, Rockey pint, an Moho— Now see we out da sen. Win an raim togidder, ‘An den we try for Balt Creok, For Ned unsbiff de rudder. But no get dere breese blow Cabbage-ridge nibber, De Je lil bit foresail— 'e ber de Noden risber. Baza, November 7, 1553. Ae. MARKETS. Prices Coneewt, Nov. 19 1968.--Fioar, supe-fiua, pilou brex, $6.0 $5 60 per bbl ; pork, prim, $16» $17; beef, city mons, 516 $20; codticb, $5 60 a $6 per owt.: suger, $3 8 $10 per cwt ; soap, joa Spirite—Brandy, pos 2 mi joan mn cases) W. P., and $46 for P. P, A¥rival of the Steamship Marion. INTELLIGENCE PROM HALIFAX—THE STEAMSIIP HUMBOLDT— ANNEXATION. The steamship Marion, Capt. Foster, which left here for Halifax, to assist im saving the steamship Humboldt, returned yesterday morning, with the officers and erew and the saved cargo of the lost vessel. We are under obligations to Mr. Traver, purser of the Marion, for files of provincial papers. In refereace to the Humboldt, the Halifax Chronicle of the 17th inst. says:— The Humbolit was finally abandoned to her fate, by the captain and crew, on Thurscay last, at which time it was evident that pothing farther could be done for terday bye party of toe Royal Engincors’ to Blow Up by » party Ny ineers, to blow up ber Goper deck, ia order to get at the valuables belo Dut the attempt failed A large number of persons went down to the scene of the disaster to witness the opera- tions, bat they were doomed to disappolatment. The shore is literally strewn with wrecked materials and rem- pants of the . 1b is satisfactory to be assured that reports circulated to the effect that the shoremen were pluedering the are grossly ex ed. The southeast storm new brewing will doubt! olish what remains of the once it Humbokit. ‘The Halifax Colonist of 18th inst. publishes the fol- lowing:—Favored by the calm and oe weather of the las’ ten days, the ill-fated steamer has so fer held to- gether as to enable her owners to ;emove a large portion of her valuable cargo, which has been brought up to the city and put on board of the American steamer Ration, which rails to-day for New York. The Humboldt was abandoned by the captain and crew several days ago, and notwithstanding the fine weather, the coustant action of the sea is gradually strewing the shore with shattered fragments of the wreck. From the shore, howover, sho can yet be surveyed in all her majestic length, the after part from the paddle boxes being aground, and at low tide showing some feei above the water. Forward of the paddle boxes she has split in halves, the starboard side, which is neat the shore, being still held by the cable at the bow and by her pl ‘at the stationary part of the wreck, This side of the vessel {s still unbroken, exposing its concave surface tothe sea, which before many days must dash it atoms, tis supposed that muoh valuy- ble property still remains im tae versel that coald be saved if sbe could break up, and under this impression an attempt was made by some of the officers of the Ro} al Engineers yesterday to blow up the cabins with gu: powder, For (his purpose a caek had been properly p pared, irto which a sewter or gutia percha pipe, of suf- ficient length to reach from the deck to the cast when submerged, was imerted, and inside of this was a fuse communicating with the powder. At about two o'clock ths cask was carefully lowered and, all things being pre- pared, at hsifpast two the match was applied, out through some imperfection in the tube, the experiment failed. Another attempt will be made this moraiog, and we doubt not with success. The British North American, in speaking of the wreck of the steamer Humboldt, says:—' We were much asto- nished, ip the midst of so much activity and bustle, and in an emergency where so much energy was required, to see crowds of strong, sturdy looking men, evidently fishermen belonging to the }lace, indolently over the side of the quarter-deck, and gazing listlersly at those at work, while some wings Hampden was descanting om their wrongs, This amphibious patriot was quite as mo- dest in his expectations as most gclevance mongers elee- where are. The first item in his ‘catalogue of woes’ was that the ca stain was unreasonable enough to expect them to work for twenty shillings (fonr dollars) per diem! On inquiring we found that the men hed demanded ten shil- lings on the first day, Afteen on the eecond, and strusk for more until they reached twenty shillings. Nothing can be more disereditable than such conduct Fortunately, s sufficient gang was at hand to perform all the necessary labor, and the malcontents, looking very salky, and not & little sheepiah, were ‘left alone in their glory.’ Every box and bale that came up was dripping with water— some of them we noticed marked ‘ this side up with care,’ ‘to be kept dry,’ the cwners eviden'ly never having dreamed of such a ane The accident, it is said, is entirely attributable to the pretezded pilot, who was ‘half seas over’ at the time. He may thank his stars ard the forbearance of the sufferers that he did not meet at their hands the punishment he deserved.” ‘The Halifax papers are busy speculating in advance upon ‘the probable contents of the President's message, which they bad not yet received. The Sun, ina curious asticle on “annexation,” says:— “A recently moeted question, vexed and perplexing, but which Gen. Pierce and his Cabinet cannot shirk. is the bho earteomnpegecsert oot a wish Islands. ‘Formal negot: #,”” no doubt, “have been o] by the bf thorities of the r the General, or any other statesman, in or out of his Cabinet, (of any y,) really believes in the pessibility of annexing ba or other isles of the sea, without the consent of England, France and Russia, or even of England alone. ‘The United States are preparing to ‘‘absorb’’ Mexioo; and they can and will ¢o it, despite the armed interference of all the ‘powers’? of ‘the old world. An eye have they on Canada and the lower | eag noite too, but the time is not yet when a razzia — hazanéed in this direction; Jonathan will have to wait until he be beqkoned from over the border line; and that will not be while,alavery curses the svil on his side of it.” Theatres and Exhibitions, Bowery Taarre.—The receipts of this evening are for the benefit of Mr T. D. Rice, the representative of negro character. Several eminent artists have voluuteered their services. The pieces selected are the comscietts ut “Crying It On,” the nautical drama of the ‘Red Rover,” thes Murmy ” the Echispian opera styled “O Huh,” and the farce called ‘Antony and Cleopatra.” Broapway TneaTk2—The selections for this evening are the new comedy called the * Fortune Huntors,’’ M Collins as Gerald Desmond, the Irish drama entitted ‘Teddy the Tiler,” and the farce of ‘ Lacies, Beware Mr. Collins will e ‘Sprig of Shiillelsh,”’ and the * Low Backed Car.”? Miss Adelside Price will appear in a fency dance. Benton's TuRaTRE —Three very geod pieses are an nounced for this evening by Manager Burton--the new comediet a of the “Maid with the Musing Pail,” the farce of ‘My Guardian Angel ”’ and the somedy of the “Serious Femily."? Mesars. Burton, Johnston, Jordan, ‘Miss EF Raymond, and Miss Reberteon will appear. Naviovat Tatatre.—Afternoon and evening perform- ances are given every day at this theatre. In the after- noon, the drama styled “Little Katy, or the Hot Cora Girl,” amd in the evening the drama of ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin—’’Mesers. Prior, Lingard, Fox, Howe, and Mrs, Prior in the leading characters. Wattack’s Tuxatre —The new comedy called the “Game cf Life” having drawn very good houses is an nounced again by the manager, for this eveniug. The cast embraces the names of Blake, Lester, Brougham, Dyott, Rea, Mrs. Conway, Mrs. Brougham, and Mise Fanny Dear.’ The amusements close with the comedietta, “Wao Speaks First?” Auarican Mcssvu.—The selection for this afternoon is the new drama, by Conway, styled “Hot Cera, or Life Scenes in New York,” and in the evening the drama eal- led ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin.”” The casta embrace all the members of the dramatic company attaehed to this theatre, Jviim’s Concents.—The benefit of M. Jallien comes off this eveving, and the musical selections are of a charas- ter which can hardly fail in drawing » large assembiag In addition to his last and greatest :omponition, the Ex- hibitien Quadrille, will be performed for the first time in America. A grand celection from his own opera of the ‘“Destruetion of Pompeii,” together with all of his most popular cance music. Comisty’s Minsrreis.—This band announces a variety of negro iwelodies, the burleaque concert, ala Jullien, and the performances of the Chinese acrobats, for’ this evenin; Woon's Mivsrnr. sist of negro melo¢ leeque opera cf the “Virginia Cugids.”” BUCKLEY'S SEREVADKeS.—Thia company are doing wal The programme of tuis evening consists of melodies burlesque opera, They give a sacred concert on Sunday evening. Broavway Mryacerm —The exhibition of the Siamese Twins, a3 plso the fine selection of lions, tigers, elephants, &e., can be seen every hour during the day. SicNor Brrrz continues to give his very amusing enter- tainments every evening at Stuyvesant [astitute, Joxes’ Panrescore of California, the Plains, and Salt Lake, is every eveving exhibited at Hope Chapel. Peruas’s SkvEN MiLe Mirror is being exhibited every day ‘The selections for this evening 90a , concert & Ja Jullien, and the bur- at Academy Hail, Broadway. Acc ext at Bares’ Tugarea, St Lovis—Fauune me or 4 theatre has been closed by anex- wt, which oecarred abn aix o'clock Laat 5 Two or three sections of the root, near sixty feet across, extend! ing the tire width of the building, and covering the wudience pact ot the theatre, gave vay and fell crashicg into the parquetie. Tas wall on the side of the alley was damaged anda part of it foreed duwa, The fron railing arcoud the upper gailer wan knocked Gown, much of the fine decurauoa of the house ruined, and the parquetie seats smashed. Tne 1 terior, exeepting the reernd tier and the dress circle «| stage, has tie aopearanos of @ complete rain piderabie sum of money, with some moothe of ecessury to ite restorstion hment, an Irishmen, varrow bad the acsident occurred st night wien toa p reance was going oo and & largs endience pre-e would have been terrible. The possibility of such a dis aster should tach the necessity of erecting buildiags of a fs public character in a considerate and secure manuer In this {nstance somebody ia eulpatle, but it ta not yet known who is responsible, The accident cannot be attri. buted to the weakness of the walla, whteh are eighteon inches thick from the fcundation to's jine above the gal ery. Thence rises « nine inch screen wall, of which part has fallen, The accident bas resulted from the weakness and insufficiency of the roof iteelf, according to the jadg ment of skilifal mechanies who have examined it, It was designed as a self-sustaining reof but was so very defec- tive in the manner of framing it, as to be only # bad imi. tation. —St. Louts Intelligencer, Dec. 19. AppiTionaL From Mexico —We are in receipt of Giles of the Comercio, of Tampico, the official journal of the go- yernment of Tamaulipas, up to the 30th November, The Comercio of the 12th and 26th haa articles lament- ing the decay of the port of fampico. It says that thirty four ¢ays have occurred since the las: tered it, and that was a Spanish brigantine with « cargo of paper. The situation of the placw, it says, in daily becoming more kad more deplorable; ianguor and stag- ontion prevail everyw ard the popolation ia falliog off. The government is strongly appealed to to ume ite eflorta to resuscitate the port, ané the chief of the parti cular means by which the Comercto proposes this shall be (one, is by a reduction of the dutivs on imported cot- ten manufactures ‘The ¢fficisl journal of Zacatecas celebrates with extra crdinary boasting » vistary obtained dy the loeai troops over ® party of loctans, wherain thirteen of the latter were killed “The captain of thy Mexican party traasmit- ted the beads of the Indiacs to the commanding gsneral of the Cepartment, and received therefor tne stipulated reward of $1,400 The anniversary of the day on which the city of Tam pleo had pronotnoed in fevor of the plan of Jalisco under which Santa Anva was recalled—was commemo. ated on the 29:b November. Important Po!ltical Letters. THE HON. JEREMIAH CLEMENS AND THE ADMINISTRA: TION. ‘Wasmmvator, Deo. 15, 1853. Gryrizwes:— Your letter of the 10th, inviting me to attend and address 8 mass of the national demo- crates, at the Chinese om the 19th » has been received. The objects of the are stated to be two-fold: — Pint, “repudiation of the di: union texdencies of certain mem! of the federal government; and , “the selection of a sound nat Union democrat as @ can disnith the last T trast you will readily perceive I b it I trust you rea ive I cannot with apy degree of propriety, interfere. I am Soy 4 sen of Pennsylvania, and have no voice in the selection of her public officers. I should be loth, at any time, to to unkind opinions of any of her distia. guished sons; and in the case of Governor Bigler, I knew nothing in his a previous history which can justly’ deprive him of the confidence of the Unton democracy. The firet object of the meeting alone remains to be considered. 1 need not say that all my feelings and sym- pathies are with those who have steadily maintained the compromise of 1850 as a final adjustment of the slavery uestion. But you must allow me, kindly and respect: fully, to doubt the wisdom of the course you propose to take, The Prerident, im his inaugural and in his recent message, has left no doubt as to his position; and I know the man too well to believe that he would re- tain among his confidential advisers any one whom be for & moment suspected of disunion tendencies. That he has made mistakes in some of his appointments, I do no} question, That he has been imposed upon in other oases, is very probable, Such things have occurred to all Presidents before him, and will occur to all who are to come after him. But warfare sgainst s national admin- istration for euch causes, has heretofore been considered the legitimate business of its opponents—not ite friends What bas been done cannot be remedied by democratic assaults upon a democratic Presi¢ent. The recent elec- tion in New York is a bitter lesson, and one by which we should endeavor to profit. With «large majority in the State, both sections of the democratic party have been the control of the State has passed into the hands’ of Wm. H. Seward. Surely this is not an entertainment to which any national Union man would de- sire to be invited, Allow me, gentlemen, in conclusion, to say that I love the Union cause too well, and have sacrificed 100 much in ita defence, to willingly put it in jeopardy by associating it with a movement of more than doubtfal propriety and of certain disaster. And while I thavk you for the kind feelings wh\ch prompted your invitation, as well as the flattering terms in which it {1 couched, f feel constrained to cecline all participation with you, op the occasion referred to. bt t, Tam, geutlemen, very respectfully, your ob’t sarvan . Freee TERE. CLEMENS. Messrs, W. B. Griffita, Isaac C. Bryant, and others, Phila- delpbia. GOVERNOR FOOTE ON NEW YORK POLITICS. The following letter was received yesterday from the Hon. Henry 8, Foote, in reply to the invitation of the Committee of the National Democratic Jubiles, held at Metropolitan Hall on the evening of the 23d of Novem- ber last :— Jackson, Nov. 80, 1853, Gextixuen—I deeply regret that I was not in the cit; of Jackson when your letter of the 17th instant reach ite destination, as, in consequence of my absence from home, considerable delay bas arisen in responding to ita contents. I assure you, gentlemen, that you have but done me simple justice in eupposing that I “could unite with yoo in congratulating the natioral democracy” of the Empire State of the confederacy ‘‘upon their recent ‘and unprecedented triumph;’’ nor is it, in my judgment to be in the least degree doubted that the lustre of that triumph is greatly enhanced by the circumstances to which you so emphatically refer—that this grand result was “accomplished solely by the spontaneous uprising of the people, unaided unsupported by pores patronage.” ' Few events occurred in the half cen- tury better calculated to rejoice the hearts of all true patriots, and to strengthen the confidence of all enlight- ened mep in the stabi of republicah ir stitutions, than the signal and surprising victory which has just heen achieved in your populeus and influential commonwealth, by the champions of the ‘Constitution and its Com- romises’’ over that pestilent and lawless free soil etion which has so long kept the whole public mind of the country in a feverish and unnatural excite- ment, and involved the Union itself in such fearful jeopardy. Whatever may be said or published to the contrary, in aid I trust that those indo- mitable champions of the national democratic creed—the Dickensone, the Bronsons, the O’Coners, and their va- Hant comrades in arms—will rest thoroughly’assured tbat tuey have the ympathy, the respest, ‘and the gratitude of all in this section of the confederacy whose esteem and confidence are at all worth possessing; and that thereare but few men of standing to be found inthe whole South who do not feel the liveliest indignation at the attempt of @ trio of corrupt and besotted Uabinet ministers to in- termeddle in the domrstic concerns of one of the sove- reign States of the Union—to break down everything like freedom of opinion—to extinguish all of that just and legitimate State pride which constitutes one of the main pilsrs our system of confederated ent— through the instrumentality of an accursed spoils pally, under the reign of which all public virtue must infallibly languish, the most elevated and disinterested love of country ‘only constitute an insuperable im t to ali public advancement, and a and infuriated spirit of Jacobinism de seen, sooner or later, usurping all the high places of civic trust and dignity. 'I ho dently belicve that a wholesome reactionary move- ment has occurred im the Siate of New Yors, which will continue and diffuse itself until faction and factisnisis shall be consigned to that death which knows no recur- rection, and the repose and happiness of the republis be placed upon foundations as imperishable as the fame of thore illustrioes sag ith whom the * constitution and its compromises ori; ” 1 baye the honor to be, gentlemen, your friend and fel- low citizen. A. S. FOOTE. Messrs. Erastus W. Glover, William Mcotry, Joreph M Mareb, David Dodge, and N. Dimond, committee, &s. Affairs in Washington. MISOELLANBOUS CORKESPONDENCE OF OTHER PAPERS. [Correspondence of Cincinnati Columbian. | Wasnixaton, Bac. 16, 1853. The very last humbug is the statement that Mr. Gada. den, our Minister to Mexico, has ¢emanded the immediate recognition of the Garay grant, on penalty of Ameriona ‘cccupation of the Me ‘Valley. Of course, the govern- ment here places no sort of reliance upon the rumor, for itis manifestly absurd. The President in his recent mes- asge, declares that all the questions with Mexico promise ‘an early and amicable adjustment. It is nonsense to sup- pore, then, that any instructions had gone to Mr. Gadsden which would admit of his assuming so unfriendly an atti- pace as that assigned him by the ramor. Again, if we make any demand against Mexico, it must be basec upon some manifest right; and if we possess such right to demand, we surely are not to offer # price for its concession the inference of Mr. Gadsden’s reported threat is, that if the Garay right is recognised, we won’t occupy Mearilla; and this failure to occupy is the consid- eration for that recognition, A more perfect diplomatic absurdity could hardly be suggested. ‘The President in his message assumes our right to the Mesilla to be perfect, and intimates that negotiations co- vering that question, among others, are pending. Where, then, did Mr. Gadsden get the power to offer concession of one right for the roongnition of another, both rights ap- pertaining clearly to the United States? Taere is not » word of truth in the absurd report, Thave no hesitation in saying that our government has not demanded the recognition of the Garay grant, and will not demand it, That grant gives to an American company a right of way seross the Isthmas of Tehaun- tepec. Mexico refuses to fulfil her contract, whether it was or was not valid. To recognise the grant would be to consent to give this right of way. Can the United States ack it? I opine not. If a maa buyss bale of merchandise, and the seller refuses to deliver it, what is his remedy? Can he go into court and enforce the deli- very of the merchandise—the fulfilment of the contract? Certainly not. He can reoover damages for the failure to deliver, but there is no power to get possession of the merchandies itaelf. Just s0 in the Garay care, The very farthest our go- veroment cen go, is to arrange with the Mexican govern- ment for a trial of the issue of damages for her failure to fulfil her contract. We cannot force her to deliver up the semi.jurisciction #he had proposed to cede. The go- yernment of Mexico can be sued in her own federal oourta, the rame as sn incividualean be; and I suppose if Mr, Gadsden concludes a treaty with Santa Anca, an under- st ncing will be bad tbat Senta Anna, as Judge, shall give the Garsy people «fair showing, and that they shall be permitted to receive, under form of snit, all that they can jus‘ly and rightfully elaim for actaal losses. More than this they will never get. The government does not credit the rumor of anothsr Glibustering expedition against Cuba, at this tim ; nor do tincere frends of the Oubsa revolutionary move: ment pnt any faith in it. The latter prsfer to bide their time, until Kngland and France phall be actively involved in the expectea general Cur opean war. Chen they know they cou strike a snoeassfal blow in Caba; bat now thy siruggle sould be, x’ best, doubtful. They anticipate, too wiarge resesrion to thelr popolar streng’h in tho Island, (0 result from ibe vyra*vieal inclinations of the pew Captein Genera!, Perud a, who bas jxut reached Ha Te precipitate a contest now would by aa madly eh as the act of a generei who attacke & greatly so # hours deley will i iaamens#y to bis own fore ve read several letters from Harava, by the last 1, contrming the opiaton that Rogiand is acting in bad faith. and actnally earrying out her scheme of Afri oapization. How else can the fact counted for, that while her ‘preventive «quadroa’’ ia continually cruising around without intercepting a single slaver, not a day passes that does not witness the sucossaful lating of poor wretches from slave ship? There is some talk of reviving the French spoliation bill; but any efforts to pans it during the preseat admi- “ration will be ept to fail, It may, and probably will pass the Senate; but it will surely be overslaughed ia the House, in order to save the President the trouble and rerponsibility of vetoiog it, [Correspondence of the Philadelphia Ledger.) Wasinxe Tox, Dae. 20, 1862. The Senate held to day an execative seasion. It was Principally on post offce appointments. By way of» feeler the nomination of the free oil fllibuster, Mr. Sulli- , was sent in and referred The appointment of Red- ald has not yet been sent in, and there ig no probab'lity oT force, whem he known that a hezard nothing, but ad th maturely to the Wi view to throw eold water on Cas is also quoted as baving letter. There must be a breach of somfidence semewhere, ‘as no one could have authorized the pablication of such a statement in General a he himself never having aut when te petes or comversations are no eon- si ae popellgey way apm eps pene to serve & ticular purpose, If at a distance from the sea\ t wait till they obtaia per- mission from Washington to think and act for them selves, they will have to wait a long while before they arrive at years of discretion, This is the last city in the whole Union from which a pure stream of information can be derived through « partiwan press. (Correspondence of the Baltimore Sun. U Wasuixcton, Deo. 1858. The Austrian Charge d?Affatres, Mr, Hulsemann,{was at anearly hour in the Houe of Lo gory gay to in- uire after the Ingraham sword, but he did not even see the bandle of it, much less the poin’, which will be shown by the debate. ‘Hards and softs are “now filling #1 the hotels on the and we have # regular New York political here in Washington. There will be # good many rejections by Senate—some that the administration will not care a button for, and some that the administra: tion will care about; but, om the whole, the thing will be done merely pro forma, to show that '‘some things may be done as well as others.’ The descending trade of the caral to Georgetown for the month of November, amounted to 33,640 barrels of of flour, 71,560 bushels of wheat, 43,560 bushels of corn, 117,381 tons of coal—total of allfarticles, 25,581 tons. As- cending, the total was 3,¢99 tons, Total collections on the whole canal for the month, $18 030 71. ‘On Mon¢ay evening two yousg men—Robert Mudd and Thomas Arnold~ were taken to the guard house, charged with stoning and breaking the windows of the house oc- cupied by G. F. Morrison, From the evidence given by several respectable witnesses, this case will become of serious importance before the court. After the windows were broken the parties entered the house, and severely beat the inmates. Mr. Abbott, a teacher, had his head badly cut, and @ servant woman was severely injured abcut the head and face. Mudd and Arnold were sent to jail by Capt. Birch, to take their trial before the Crimt- nal Court. In addition to the above, I umcerstand that the same parties pursued an uncflending and aged citizen who was ssig st the time, and threatened his life. His escape Eto the house of his son-in law, s short distances Ca ed him from violence. Let this evil be checke: Ta prove tion of the Meigs to-day, in presence of the bidders. The bids and prices per thousand were as follows :—Sidney Hsyden, of Penneylvanie, for the whole quantity, $18 ; for & portion only, $12 60. ©. 1 Coltman, of Washington, if made of untempered clay, $9 50 ; if made on the line of the can $9 20; if made at any other place, $11. Thomas Irvin of Washisgton, for the whole, $10 75 William H. Dig, & Co., of Wi hington, for the whole, $8 75. J. P. Braw- Tey and ©. F. Muench, ‘nnsylvanis, for not lers than 10,000,000, $13 39. whole quantity of bricks whish will be needed for the construction of the aqueduct is estimated at forty milliens. The contract will be awarded in the course of » few Jay! Opinions, &c., at the National Capital, (From the Washington Star, Deo. 21.) 4 HEAVY DAY’s BUSINESS. The money transactions of the ihe) peearuaeas were remarkably heavy yesterday—the Unit States stocks redeemed being larger im the sggregate amount than ever before in a single day. More than $300,000 of such stocks were redeemed on acoount of the Baltimore Savings Bank—upon which re has recently been a severe ron, it will be recollected, JAMES COLLIER, THE DEFAULTING EX-COLLECTOR. ‘We understand that the Secretary of the Treasury has instructed the District Attorney of Ohio to appeal to the Supreme Court of that State against the deci of the judge who recently diseharged James Collier, ex-Collector ‘of the port of San Francisco, frons.custod , under a writ of habeas corpus. The laws of Ohio authorise such an appeal in such cares. THE WHEEL WITHIN A WHEEL. It seems to be thought that the proposition to allow the Public Lands (House) Committee a clerk was con- eeived with the view to make a place for Mr. F. J. Grund, the talented newspaper mat It is ainly a place herein there will be “little todo,” and, it may be, “auch to get.’” That, however, will depend upon whether the person to be elected to it shall busy himeelf in ‘‘grind- 5g axes,” or not. It will offer charming facilities for a lobby man, indeed. CONSUL CLAYTON'S ALLEGED RESIGNATION. It is presumed here that if Juige Clayton, United States Consul at Havana, has resigned that post, sa all this morning in the newspapers, hit act has resulted the death of his favorite nephew, whom he carried ont with bim as his peace haptic That gentleman died shortly after the Judge arrived out. THE CUBRENT OPERATIONS OF THE TREASURY DE- PARTMENT. On the 20th of December there were of Treasury war- rants entered on the books of the Departmeat— For the redemption of stocks 437 83 ‘or Treasury Department, ex: 6,788 87 For the Cartons 18,061 79 610 97 For the Navy Depe Pr a partment a For repaying for the Navy partmedh. "389 For the Interior Department......1 27,627 97 Whe Home and Grave of Washington. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD, Pamapgtrata, Dec. 15, 1858. At the request of a large number of your friends and subscribers, [2end you the Charleston Mercury of the 2d inst., containing an appeal from a ‘ Southern Matron” to the ladies of the South, in behalf of a noble projest for the purchase, by subscription, of Mount Vernon, to pre- vent this sacred spot from falling into the hands of specu- lators, who are now negotiating for its purchase, ‘The Washington family have stipulated that the bar- gain is net to be consummated until after the adjoura- ment of the present Congress, in order that Congress might have one only more opportunity to make the pur- chase for the nation; but the Indies of the South—God ‘bless them |—now aspire to that honor. . There is no time to lose in spreading this proposition before the public; and as you are knewn to wield a most powerful influence ss an editor, and your paper hasa wider circulation than any other in the United States, it has been determined to place this matter in your hands, as the surest method of securing an early and efficient interest in this praiseworthy enterprise. Your WERxLY Hxatp has, I suppose, the most extensive circulation, and you will, I trust, give it @ place there, with such faverable remarks as the theme itself will, I am sure, in spire you. What spectacle on earth could be more beattiful and sublime than this act of refined patriotism from the purer sex, thus doieg honor to the grave of the Father of their country? Iam sure you will agree with me that every American, whether citizen, statesman, or editor, should take pride in calling attention to this iate- resting project, and aid it by alving to it his warmest ap- laure anda wide circulation. I feel that you will not Only give it a place in yeur excellent journal, but that you wiil also xccompany it by your hearty and sincere Spproval, and thus aid in exciting immediate action upom ¢ subject, and of presenting to the world an example and o patriotic epicit amongst the gentler sex unparalleled in apy other country, It has beem suggested that the ladies whore zeal induce them to take the eharge of subscription lists, should pre- serve the names and residences of all the contributors, in order trat they may be hereafter published in book form, and deposited at Mount Vernon, and in the Capitols of each of the contributing States, as an enduring record of their patriotiem. Yours, very truly. _ © TO THE LADIES OF THE SOUTH. descendant of Virginia, and now a daughter of Care moved by feelings of reverence for departed great- and goodness, by patriotism and s sense of national, 1, of Southern honor, ventures to appeal to you in behalf of the ‘home and grave” of Washington. Ladies of the South--of a region o! warm, generous, en- thusiastic hearts, where there still lingers some unselfish love of oovatry and eountry’s honor, some ehivuiric fael- ings yet untouched by that ‘+ national spirit ”’ 40 rapidly overrhadowiug the morals of our beloved land—a moral Diight, fatal to man’s noblest attriontes, snd which love of money and speculation alone seems to aurvive—to you we turn, you, who retain seme reverense for the noble dead, rome ‘admitution and remembrance of exalted worth and services when they are no more! Of yoo we ask, “Ws you, can you, lok on passively and’ brhold the heme and the grave of she mi jot, who is 20 coinple ‘ely ice 1 a8 & poses sion to speculative machinista, withou a feeling of indignation firing your sows a3 shall causs you to rash with ove heart and «pirit to the resuet”? Ladies of the South, can you be si and purver, while the world cries ‘+s ea,” and sufer Moant Vernon, with ell its sacred tions, to become. #4 ia #po" @n of aad probable, the seat of manufacturers and manafactories, noise god smoke. and the “busy hnm of men,” destroying all ranctity snd repose sround the tomb cf your own “world’s wonder?”” Ob, it cannot be porsible ! What. anch sactilege, such desecration, while you have the hearts to fee! the shame, and the power to prevent it! Never | Forbid it, shades of the dead that the Pil- rims to the shrine of true patriotism should find thee forgotten, and surrounded by blackening smoke and A with slosec souls i ever enters the thought, and gold, only gold, moves the heart and nerves the arm ! Once ovr congressional halls were the resort of wis dom, integrity and patriotism; where enlightened heads and upright minds sought to fulfil their official obiiga- tioxe, by comprehending and faithfully executing the “glorious code ef Jaws’? which bound ua into one com- mon country, and also by vieing with each other who should add most to that country’s weal at home, and glory abroad. But ali seems changed. Washington, and of ite boing acted upon before Jane of July, Several hundred softs "and hards are now here, to pio: confirmation and rejection respeatively. My opinion now iv, that he will be rejected, in spite of the herculean effort to rave him. The Charge to the Hague, the Consul to [endon, tho Conaul to Palermo, (a hero of the Mexici hangt gin the wind. The probability i-, they will a'l be rejected. So much for Backingham. The rumor is, the s/ministration, and eapectally Governor Maroy, b t the lightest onjection to haviag some of the President’s pominationa retorned to him, ia order to give hima chance of making a better selection The House shows a very commend readiness ‘0 proceed at ones to business, The Civil ant Diplomatic bull {8 all ready to be reported; so ia the Pefoirnoy bill ond the Navy Pension bill. All the cowmittess ara at work; and all have aa much business on hard a9 ‘he, cro reasonably attend to. The Hone have also co wm need referring the President's Message to the Sproper av th oritioe, Colonial Jeremiah Clemens’ letter to the Committae of omr,) are all | his principles an¢ hia spirit, appear no longer to fiuenos the city which bears his name. Oh! who that basa spark of patrictism, but must mourn such early dogeneraey, when they seo who fill our legislative halle and crowd Cur pelltical metropolia! Who can restrain a ng of shame, when they bebo d the annual rush thither jobbers and bounty-seckers, of office aspirants aud ucklers, of party corrupters and cosrapted—all collect ing like a focs.of vultures to thelr. prey--prowling and 4 high purpores of legislation? th ! should wo ap al to such as these to protwet the grave of Washington from the granp of the typeculator ana worldling? Acd should wi peal either I~ or through your Senators snd Representatives? What . a ove {hey 401, or would of could do, in that mephitio re No, i is to you mothers ant daughters of ihe South, ‘bat appeal can be made with ® hopeful confidence. 1¢ ja woman’ «file to be « vestel; aod even the ‘fire of ) berts’” may eed the evre of her cevotion, and the jurity of her guardianship. Your hovrts are ‘resh, re- verential, amd auimated by lively senstbilicies and elevat., Ne tional Democra‘s in Philadelphia, found ite way pre- | fog purposes, W.th you, therefore, patriotism bas not Every suite of rooms is 51 with hot and cold water, a water closet, and p! closets for clothing and stora; eonvenieatly arranged. deafening machinery. where mouey, opel money, . become a name. And # there ever be again ‘times to try men’s souls,” there will be found frend and of you, as of old, heroines, superior to fear and comsideration, acting for country and its honor, Believing this, one of your countrywomen feels ¢m- boldened to a) genie te Bame of the mother of Wash- gton, sod feeling and honor, to all that is meee and generous im your nature, to exert itself; and x com bi effort now, in village and country, town and city, the means may be raised from the mites of shecennds of gente Sears upon whom his name ka! t a magic spell, which will suffice to secure and retai is home and grave as a eaered spot for all coming time. Aspontaneous work like this would be such a monu- ment of love and gratitude as has never fa been reared to purest patriot or mortal man; and while it would save American honor from a blot in the eyes of a graing wort, it would furnish a shrine where at tthe mot the land ard their indignant children, might make their offerings im the cause of the greatness, aud pros- perity of their country. It is keown to you that Con has virtually de- clined to purchsse and preserve Mount Vernon in bebalf cf the nation. Yet there i+ now necessity for immediate action, a schemes are on foot for its purchase by Northern capital, and its devotion to money: making pur- It is, therefore, respectfully and earnestly sug- gented to you, and by one who in her descent, inherited patbies and Teverence of those who were once in relations of life with the “Father of his Coun- that the South, by general contribution, each s mite, furnish the amount sufficient for the purchase of Mount Vernon—that the property be couveyed in trust to the President of the United States and the Governor oi Virginia, to be preserved and !mproved im your name as 8 hallowed resort for all ‘people—that for its continued preservation and improvement, @ trifle be each visiter--and that your contributions to effect thene no- ble ends may be gathered into the hands of the Governors of your states respectively, to be remitted to the Go- vernor of Virginia, with authority and direction to make hase. poses. the purel A SOUTHERN MATRON, Progress and Luxury of Hotel Living in New York. Mr. Hawley D. Clapp—a gentleman who unites the e1 terprise and business energy requisite for good land- Jord with the polite and corcial manners no less requi- site—has just opened a new hotel, situated on the corner of Seventeenth street and Fourth avenue, and fronting on Union sqvare, He has christened it the Everett House, in honor of the distinguished Massachusetts Senator. ‘The building is of brick, five stories high, and contaias sixty suites ef rooms, consisting of elegant private par- lors, with one or two be¢rooms adjoining and connecting with the same, as wellas with the public halls. The rooms are uncommonly high, fifteen and a» half feet be- tween the floor and ceiling, up to the fifth story. This, together with tho fact that they are all warmed by open grates, in which only Liverpool coal is burned, secures & good, pure atmosphere. The furniture, of rosewood throughout, is very rich. The curtains to the windows, and the covering of the chairs and sofas, are of costly and beautiful material, and tasteful ottomans Silken Display their damask beauties, turned to soft Ethereal hues in polished mirror’s light, Which, as the waves the sunset clouds, give back Each thing more lovely. ‘The carpets are English velvet. The parlor farnitare cost from twelve hundred dollars to seventeen hundred fifty te room. ‘The house is so constructed and arranged that the dif. ferent suits of rooms are almost as retired and quiet, and free from external disturbance, as separate houses, pplied with a bath! acer ol rooms are very The house js te be kept on the European plan, or, at a Wall street breker, not remarkable for his (eal information ot the correctness of his pep at it— “Ethiopian place.’” Some single rooms are rented as low as ten dollars a week, while come of the suites command as high as eighty dollars. This is exclusive of board, There \§ nO public table ; families dine im their lors, er in small pritate dining rooms, have just wat they want, at any ur they please, and pay accordingly, In the basement is a resteaurant, expensively fitted uj intended to be on # par with Delmonioo’ ity and price. bot in gully Mr. Clapp is widely known as the popular letor of that celightful summer retreat, the Hamilton House, at Fort Hamilton. The neat colored Quakeress, whose try became noted among the loxuries of the Hamilton Hous, will be recognized in her handiwork by the epicures who visit the Everett House. People with plenty of “gold glistening through the cei! of their long silken purses,’”? who are found of joxw: will find themselves about as comfortable and dent at the Everett House, as under their own vine and quiet, without the trouble of honse-«eeping, inde The Crystal Palace. THE TURKISH DEPARTMENT OF THE EXHIBITION. The Turkish departmert of the Crystal Palace was only opened last week. Owing possibly to its political difi- culties, the government of that country has taken no part in the Industrial Exhibition, and it was left {o the private enterprise of one individusl—Mr. Chiragay—to give us s few specimens of Turkish art. This department is to be found on the right hand immediately on entering the Palace. There isa quantity of goods yet unpacked, but those on exhibition are nearly all contained in two glass cases. In the la: ger of these, the first object of at- traction isthe silk and muslin de laine stuffs, richly embroidered in gcld and silver. These are for ladies’ drerses, and are orly worn by the most distinguished females in Constantinople. The Sultan’s wives appear in some such brilliant costume in the seraglio, Beneath these are to be found diminutive slippers, worked in gold, and set with pearls, Repcrt has said that the feet of Turkieh ladies sre fabulously small, and the size of these, skoes would certainly lead us to believe it. In this case there are also Persian dresses cf muslin de laine and alk of the very finest texture—silken scarfs from Aleppo, wrought with goli—bed covers embroidered with flowers; and what we noticed more particularly, a magni ficent table cover of Mosaic Persian broidery, made up of small pieces of colored cloth, interwoven, and richly em- broidered with silk, representing flowers, &0. There were here some articles werked with the hand, really exquisite in their—way head ornements for lacies—wreaths and crowns of flowers made with silken and silver thread, and brough to the rarest perfection. The flowers in silk, on several purses and to! pouches, were #0 exquisitely ‘that they seemed like miniature painting: ‘the second and large case is hurg round with silks from the famous manufactory of Brasre, which carries on such slarge business with England and France. A gentle- man’s winter coat, lined with far, and slashed plentifully with goid, gives us, we fancy, but little idea of the actual costume of the country, Among other articles worthy of notice is a white turban, wrought with geld, made of = species of Toousselin de laine, which cannot be found either in Europe or America. We noticed also some Per- sian manteaus, and were particularly charmed with an Egyptian cloak for ladies, said now to have been intro duced into European fashion by the Empress of the French. If anght could add to thectarms of female beauty, such m dress assuredly would. The skias of Angola theep, with the cloth manufactured from them; Turkish, Persian, snd other Asiatic tapestry; various ‘wooden ornaments elaborately carved; coffee cups of rich workmanebip; Persian arguiaia and hooksha; a pair of sclesors of Damascus steel, cariourly inlaid with gold— all these will attract the visiter at very fair ferns) of Eastern art, luxury, and taste. Though the artioles e: hibited arp not numerous or diversified, we venture to say that fhe ladies of New York will not be dissatisfied with tn inepection of the Turkish depariment of the Crystal Palace. Superior Court- Part Second. Before Judge Emmet and a Jury. THE YACHT YARBOROUGH. Dro, 22.—Motes H. Grinnell against Henry Robinson.— This was an action breught by the plaintiff, a well known shipping merchant of this olty, sgamst Henry Robinson, of Newburg, N. Y., for fraudulent representations made by the latter to the Coats in regard to the conilition of a certain vesrel, colled the “Yarborough,” of Newburg. of abrut eighty tem: burthem, which the defendant owned. but sold to the plaintiff on the 2ist day of Novem ber, 1663, for the sum of $3,0.0. It was alleged by Me srs Lerocque and Bowdin, counsel for the plaiatiff, that the defendant reprerented to the plaintiff, prior to the purchase, that the yeesel was entirely ecuud, and that the bull was as sound as the day wan +he was Isurched, Afte. the plintiff purchased the venso!, and pat the eame into actual service, it was discovered that he leaked badly, when the plaintiff caused new and ad- ditional pum ps to be put om board, and other repairs to made; and, in A® &n opportuuity offered, she was pis ced on the ke, and then it was discovered that her Lull was rotten, and the vessel unfit for uss. The plaintifl commurieated to the defendant the above facts, but the latter denied that he made any reprosentations, or war- ranted the verse] in any way whatever. The plaintiff fubsequently advertised the vessel for sale, and she was Fold at public » uctic t the Merchants’ Exch a: due 5 otice 10 the on the 4th day of for the eum of $877 62. The plaintiff new su sum of $2,122 £8, being the balance of the sum paid origi. pally by bim to defencant for the vessel. For the fence it was contended, by Mr. C. N. Potter, of counsel, that the defendant made no representations as to ths condit'on or soundness of the veasel, or in any other mi ner made representations with respect to her, or that indueed, by such representations, the plaintiff to chase the same. ar The answer also denied that the plain- tiff had eustained, by reason cf deceit or fraud on the part of the defendant, any damage whatever, Itewas also contended that if she was unsound, the defendant was en- tirely ignorant of it at the time of tho nate, and that she was not purcbsaed by the plaintiff from tne defendant un- til efter w ther ough fuapection and examination of the said vessel. The canse is still om, Thin beirg the ast day of the December term, thera will be no other causes taken up until the January term. First District Court. Before Judge Green, Dro, 22,—Grinnell, Minturn & Co. vs. Benjamin J. Blonkman.—This was an sction brought by the plaintiffs against the defendant, for the purpore of ejecting him from a house snd premiser, known aa 331 Fourth street, in thia elty, on the ground that there wore $600 rent 4 from the defendant to the plaintiff’. Mr. E. and Mr TF’. Parker get up and showed the that the plaintitix bad committed acta of trea) ing down » wail and deirg otter irjurier to t without leave or consent of the defendant, which amount- ed (o an eviction and forfeiture of the rent; and, second: ly, that the piaintiffy had released the defendant from the payment of the rent during the term of the whole year, in consideration of such acts of trespass committed open him. Judgment for the defendant. Alleged Murder of a Son by his Father. STRANGE DBVELOPEMENTS IN THN AFFAIR—ALS LEGED BAD CHARACTER OF THE DECBASED—AR< BEST OF THE FATHER BY THE POLICE, ETO. Coroner Hiltom was called yesterday to bold an inquest on the body ef @ young man named William Sullivan,’ twenty one years of age, som of Cornelius Sullivan, re< siding in Forty-first street, near Tenth avenue, who eam@ to his death, asis alleged, from a blow inflicted on his head with a club by his father. The body of the deceased now lies in the dead house at Bellevue Hospital, where the Coroner intends holding the investigation at 11 o’cloole this day. However, in advance of the Coroner's inquiais tlon—the case being one of » terrible character—we forth< with proceeded to glean as many of the facts as was pos. sible to be obtained prior to the legal investigation, In the first place, Cornelius Sullivan, the father of the deceased, is a man of respectable eppearance, over sixty years of age, a native of Ireland, but a resident of thig country since his childhood, Is the father of sig children—five boys and one girl; the oldest boy ia now about twenty-five years of age, ‘and William, the deceased, is the second eldest, being now between 21 and 22 years. For seme years past the deceased has beew intimately connected with a gang of dishonest boys of about his own age, who congregate in that neighborhood; and time azd again has he been arrested by the police for laroenies of various deseriptions, and as often bas he been seat to Blachwell’s Island Penitentiary, there ta nee out aterm of imprisoament as = penalty for the crime. During the last two years the deceased has been « source of great trouble te his poor old father. Many 6. time has the deceased returned home intoxicated and demanded money from his father, and because he did no@ comply with his request, bas selzed @ hatehet or out witle a dirk knife, and, with a terrible oath, threatened to rip his father’s body open. The pelice would be called, and the inebriate son conveyed off to the station house,, Buch bss bem the career of this undatiful boy,’ who, not willing to work, whereby to obtainan honest living, has now, by his own miscondust, brought himselg to an untimely death. On Tueiday last the deceased asked his father to let Archibald, @ younger brother of fifteen years of age, go to s neighboring grocery stere {for five shillings left im the charge of the groceryman for him, by some parties, the night previous. The father told the deceased he had bet- ter go himself for the money; but at the earnest solicita- tions of deceased, the father consented, and Archibald went to the grocery store and obtained the money,’ The father prohibited the deceased from taking Archibald away with him, as he knew he want. ed to make him » thief as well as himself, and theres fore would never permit the younger son to amos ciate with deceased away from the house, After the money was obtaired, the deceased induced his young: er brother to accompany him to Fulton for the purpose of buying a rooster to shoot at on Christmas. day. They went to the market, as related by Archibald,’ and the deceased bought a live rooster for three shillings and three cents, and both returned im the cars home; but Archibald, knowing that his father never permitted his rd companying deceased, kept back from the house, from the bill looked on at the reception deceased ‘hed witie his father. The deceased went into the house with the ster under his arm, and the father observing deceased consi bly under the influence of liquor, re feeling vexed at his taking off the younger son, asked him how he dared to take Archibald when he prohibited it, The oath, yf @ piece of pine wood used by the boys as bat to play ball, and instant! cate a blow at his father. The old man, to defend his Person, took up also a piece of pine wood and followed after his son, who hed then retreated outside the door; he {he'atiok, which struck the deceased about the middle ot stick, which a ceased about the the back, but, from = stopped pursuit, diteh of water, stumbled and fell, but turned sround the rear of the house, and ascending the hill, not ‘ee able to balance himself pro- perly, from the effects of intoxication, Pye bo some rocks, striking his head on one of the: y inficting a scalp wound, from which the bl flowed freely. He appeared to be stunned for am instart, but soon recovered himself, returned to the house, and when he entered the room he asked his father he might be allowed ta Isy down on the coal ashes in the corner. His father made no reply to him, and without any more being saidy the mother of deceased permitted him to lay down on hee bed. This oceurred, it must be recollected, on Taesday evening, where deceased remained on the bed until hee parents wanted to retire for the made for deceased in one corner of the room. During the following morning deceased was sensible, but remained om: the bed. In the afternoon he became much worse, and also insensible. Dr, Hepburn ws then sent for, who, om examination, found that deceased had compression of the brain, and that but very little hope existed of his recov- ery. ‘That night it was thonght acvisable to send the de- ceased to Bellevue Bospital, which was and every effort was there made to relieve the ¢ but tomo avail. ss death ensued on the following day, (thursday) samt from the effects of the injury ived on the bead. Captain Maynard, of the Nineteenth ward police, learn- ing on Wednesday night that no hope was entertained of the recovery of deceased, sent officers Ross and Mo- Cracken to arrest the father, whe was conveyed to the station houre, where he was detained on harge of causing the death of his son. The arrest was made om the romor that the father had inflicted a blow on the head of deceared sith aclub We think this rumor can- not be sustained in fact, as the above account of the af- n mis] e whole story to light by the Coroner's investigation. The father states that but a stort time ago he was assaulted by the deceased, who ey eres eae ee iy ee & very severe manner, an e only safety they ex) rleaced was at the times when deceased was im- peeenes te the ees When asked by his father go to work, he w re) if “T shan’t work; I cas Leda en ara a ad aig ¢ than you can all the weel Material Ald to Turkcy. EXPEDITION IN AID OF THE SULTAN—MEETING OP GERMANS, FRENCH, HUNGARIANS, ETO. Quite a large number of foreigners were collected toge- ther last evening, in Eckhart’s Hotel, to discuss the prow jected expedition to Turkey. The scene was picturesque in the extreme, and would bave formed a splendid subject for the pencil of Teniers, Tables were scattered here and there, and om each ot them stood sundry huge goblets, which possibly overflowed at one time with lager beer. After several spasmodic puffs to clear away the tobacco smoke which obstructed our vision, we were enabled to discover that the room was filled with men— men of every pation—men with large beards, from whose mouths curiously shaped pipes projected—desperate looking fellows, destined probébly to be the saviors of the Ottoman Porte, and the terror of the Autocrat of all the Russias, It seems that this scciety—for society it is--intends to organise several companies, who will start for Constanti- nople direct, as soon as sufficient funds can be raised. Ita principles are cosmepolite. Amoag its members are Germans, French, Poles, Hungarians, and even Ame- ricane. Ite sympathies are for the Saltan--ite object the downfall of Nicholas, and its am- bition, milt‘ary glory. The society is perfestly serious in its intentions, for it stands recorded on the minute book, ‘This meeting ia not for fun, but for real earnest,” Evennow the first company of volunteers is ready to depart. La gleire loads them on, They leave New York ina fortnight for the seat of war. Each manhas nothing to expect but a free passage to tha place of des- tination. Esch maa gces aa a citizen, privately, and’ without any other enpport whatsoever, Fach man goss either to win fmperisnele renown, or to leare his bones te whiten the shores of the Danube. ‘The Prerident, M. Scntvzo called the meeting to order. Several letters were read by the secretary, from volum~ teers ( flerlug their services-one froin an Amerioaa, who rata he could command fifty dollara, end woald as soon die in “F upgary” for liberty as ia America. A letter was also yead from @ Baltimore lady, ¢rawing the attention of the rociety to’ anarm’’—to wit, » gun which can be fired tea timer in a minutes, earrying eleven balls s time, to the ¢istance of three banded yards The Presper then apnonueed that Mfr, Lawrence, of the Frie Railroad Company, hed offered provisions for 4950 men for six months; that Jullien had been reanested to give ® concert; and that the landlord of the Shaks- are Hotel bed offered «room for » vocal performance, Prorder to reine funds for tye objact the society has in view. The President also raid that a committee had waited on General Sanford, who answered that, as ® pri- vate citizen his sympathies were with the projected ex- pedition, but that he could not, in his officiel character, give +ny advice or help. Dr. Kerrzan the 6 end explained to the meeting thot every volunteer ehould go on bis own responsibility —thet there was no fear of infringing t atrality law-- that every citizen bad # right to leave the country whenever he wished, and that they did not go as soldiers, but as private citizens. On the President inviting al pre freely to express thetr opinione, « gentleman, whose name we were unable to catch, grid that he thought the law of 1819 forbade any expedition of armed men to leave this country for any hos'ile purpore whatscever. Dr. Kverzan explained sgain, He spoke eloquently, He « ic vot understand how, ing free country, a body of men was pot permitted to leave whenever it chose, 19 objected to the mame of “Unten’’ being attached to the pociety, and proposed that it should be called a “Society of Eeigrants to Tarkey,” which wat put to vote and carried uranimonrly ‘The meeting then adjourned, after which several volun~ teers came forward and enrolled their names, The pro- ceedings were carried on during thi g entirely im the Gorman Imnguege. Free at Bay St. Lovrs—Capt Walker, of the 1 leans steamboat Crevle, has politely forwarded to us the infor- mation that oa yesterday morning at three o’olosk fire broke out at Bay St Louis, by which eight houses were dest oyed, ‘Two of them blonged to Mr. Geaum, two to Galle, one to Mr. Kleng, one to Mr. Hoffman, one to Mr. Waynburge ‘one to Mr. Bellmard. It is believed that they must have been set fire to by design. —New icayune, Dec. 16.